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Ticket Price$20-80Students Half Price
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Duration2hrs 10minOne intermission
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Season Finale: Pines of Rome
Be transported to the Eternal City at the Symphony’s Season Finale! Mendelssohn-Hensel’s effervescent Overture in C Major opens the concert, followed by Mendelssohn’s exuberant Italian Symphony, evoking the bustling streets of Italy. George Li dazzles with Sant-Saens’ Second Piano Concerto. Respighi’s evocative Pines of Rome closes the concert with blazing brass raising the roof of the Civic Center.
Program
- MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL Overture in C Major
- MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 “Italian”
- SAINT-SAENS Piano Concerto No. 2
- RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
Performers
- Joseph Giunta Conductor Bio